Call for papers: Immigration, Immigrants, Agriculture and Food in North America

Edited by: Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone, Tufts University.

Overview

In a recent OpEd in the Boston Globe entitled “Trump Spills the Beans on Who Grows Americans’ Food”, we described how the new US administration’s immigration policies can create an opportunity for dialog about the intersections between immigration, immigrants, agriculture and food. Around 2 million of the people who plant US crops and pick fruit are undocumented, accounting for fully 50 to 70 percent of total US farm workers. Others are food chain workers in food production, distribution and restaurants.